Gentrification
Clayton Patterson raises the ghosts of the Lower East Side’s anarchic past
Outlaw art — Patterson’s Outside In retrospective at Howl Arts bridges back to the grassroots creativity of pre-gentrification NYC.
Written by: Alex King
Meet the leader of the Lower East Side’s last street gang
Colours, crime and second chances — Cochise led the Satan's Sinners Nomads street gang on New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1980s. After being sent to prison for the attempted murder of two gang members, he turned his life around and now makes art.
Written by: Alex King
NYC's hipster clichés come under the magnifying glass
Brooklyn: For Real — Following in the footsteps of Vimeo series High Maintenance, Brooklyn: For Real presents a riotous parody of Brooklyn’s creative inhabitants.
Written by: Robin Nierynck
Are New York’s eccentric street characters being pushed out?
Save NYC street culture — Filmmaker Nicolas Heller’s No Your City web series celebrates the city’s larger than life characters, who are being threatened by ongoing gentrification of the Big Apple.
Written by: Alex King
New Yorkers are fighting to save the soul of their city
Stop NYC eating its children — Gentrification is suffocating New York’s creative culture. We spoke to #SaveNYC campaign founder Jeremiah Moss to find out why it’s time to fight back.
Written by: Alex King
Is New York still a city of dreams?
No more rags to riches — Writer Alan Kaufman and artist Clayton Patterson discuss how their personal journeys of social advancement and creative expression no longer seem possible in today’s NYC.
Written by: Alex King
Can Russell Brand's Trew Era Café kick off a social change revolution?
Coffee shop revolutionary — Russell Brand's new social enterprise café on Hoxton's New Era estate is an ambitious attempt to kickstart people-powered change.
Written by: Megan White
A battle is raging for the soul of New York City
We need to #SaveNYC — Gentrification is taking its toll on the city’s cultural fabric. Artist and photographer Clayton Patterson throws his weight behind the #SaveNYC campaign.
Written by: Alex King
The Lower East Side playlist
NYC's counterculture petri dish — Artist, photographer and popular historian Clayton Patterson is our guide to the best of the Lower East Side's alternative culture.
Written by: Alex Taylor
